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  2. List of text-based computer games - Wikipedia

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    Creator Notes BBC: 1961: John Burgeson: Baseball simulator The Sumerian Game: 1964: Mabel Addis, William McKay: The first edutainment game. Unnamed American football game [1] 1968 or before: Unknown: For the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. One of "many games" in library of 500 programs. The Sumer Game: 1968: Doug Dyment: AKA Hamurabi: Highnoon ...

  3. List of city-building video games - Wikipedia

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    Game Developer Setting Platform Notes 1964: The Sumerian Game: Mabel Addis: Historical: MAIN: Text-based game based on the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash. [1] 1969: The Sumer Game: Richard Merrill: Historical: MAIN: Adaptation of The Sumerian Game. [1] 1975: Hamurabi: David H. Ahl: Historical: MAIN: Expanded version of The Sumer Game.

  4. Interactive fiction - Wikipedia

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    The player uses text input to control the game, and the game state is relayed to the player via text output. Interactive fiction usually relies on reading from a screen and on typing input, although text-to-speech synthesizers allow blind and visually impaired users to play interactive fiction titles as audio games. [2]

  5. Text-based game - Wikipedia

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    Strictly speaking, text-based means employing an encoding system of characters designed to be printable as text data. [1]: 54 As most computers only read binary code, encoding formats are typically written in such, where a bit is the smallest unit of data that has two possible values and each combination of bits represents a byte.

  6. Timeline Ltd. - Wikipedia

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    Timeline Ltd. was an American game company that produced role-playing ... Timeline is the publisher of ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  7. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    Initial games were still more experimental and toys without comprehensive gameplay loops. AR-based games took off with the release of Pokémon Go in 2016, which combined AR with location-based games. Players would use their mobile device to guide them to where a virtual Pokémon may be found, which they searched for and attempted to capture ...

  8. Online text-based role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    An online text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface. Online text-based role playing games date to 1978, with the creation of MUD1, which began the MUD heritage that culminates in today's MMORPGs. [1] [2] Some online-text based role playing games are video games, but some are organized ...

  9. The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Trail is a text-based strategy video game in which the player, as the leader of a wagon train, controls a group journeying down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon in 1847. The player purchases supplies, then plays through approximately twelve rounds of decision making, each representing two weeks on ...